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SEASONAL FLU VIRUS: WHY VACCINES NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE
Who should get the seasonal flu vaccine? Why is the flu vaccine different each year? How does the flu vaccine protect us? The CDC has estimated that seasonal influenza or the flu is responsible for around 50,000 deaths worldwide each year. In 1918, the “Spanish flu” pandemic killed over 6,750,00 people in the U.S. and caused over 50 million deaths worldwide. The more recent 2009 pandemic flu resulted in over 200,00 deaths during its first year of circulation in the human population.
HELLO MICROBE MY OLD FRIEND: HOW A DIVERSE MICROBIOME TRAINS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AGAINST ALLERGIES
Why does the immune system sometimes go haywire and cause allergies? Scientists now think that a healthy immune system needs training early in life by unlikely allies: microbes. How can microbes be our friends in the face of allergies, and why are these disorders getting more common recently?
GOING WITH THE FLOW
Marine animals face a lot of potential issues when swimming through the water. One wrong turn, and you could end up as someone else’s next meal. Not turning enough could result in bumping into a lot of things. But there is one important feature found everywhere that they have to face almost all the time, and this feature is rarely seen – vortices.
